CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
Watching movie is considered to be entertaining to some people. It
is one of the ways to relieve stress from the daily activites. People enjoy the
movie in a certain time such as holiday and free time. There are local movie
and foreign movie. Sometimes, people feel difficult in watching movie
especially in understanding the conversation because it is carried out in
foreign language. The process of understanding a foreign language or getting
information from foreign language needs certain ability to interpret the
language to our native language. A lot of people also cannot do it easily. To
solve that problem, some foreign movies provides subtitle. A lot of people
consider the subtitling as similar with translation. But in fact, subtitling is a
language act that usually applied into a movie, in the other hand translating is
a language act done for novels, biographies, books, short stories, etc. To
make a qualified subtitle for a foreign movie, a translator needs to transfer the
source language to the native language. According to Meschonnic (2008:340)
in Sutopo (2015:10), “translating is an act of language and every act of
language implies an ethics of language”. Based on the explanation above,
subtitling may be defined as language act that have language ethics which
includes the different messages. An translator may face the meaning of word,
phrase, clause and sentence. It means that understanding of the meaning is
very important in translation field.
Sometimes the subtitle shows different meaning from the actual
information that is spoken in the movie. One of the reasons may be because
of the inaccurate word selections, the words order or certain phrases or
clause. Those inaccuracies may bring different meaning of the translation and
miss-understanding for the movie viewer. To make a good qualified subtitle,
a subtitler must decide the method used for translating the foreign language
into the native language. Beside, adaptating the culture of the native language
is very important to make the viewer easily to understand the utterances
appear in the movie. According to Kreidler (1998:190) “directive utterances
are those in which the speaker tries to get the addressee to perform some act
or refrain from perform an act”. It means that the directive utterance is the
direct communication done by the speaker and the addressee. It purposes to
express the meaning of communication. Every directive utterance includes
requesting, commanding, suggesting, and warning. In this research, the
researcher takes the directive utterance used in Homefront Movie.
Homefront is an American action movie directed by Gary Fleder.
This movie tells how a father, Phil Broker, protects the daughter, Maggy,
from his Enemies. The enemies are bikers Gangster which is very dangerous.
Then, Broker and Maggy move to live in a town which is strange for them.
They also get the disturbance from their neighboor. Then, there is a moment
when Maggy is kidnapped by the bikers’ Gangster, Broker is very angry with
them. When he finds the place of the Gangster’s basecamp, he destroys
everything that is blocking him to get the daughter again. Finally, Broker can
find his daughter and bring her back to the city. This movie is very interesting
for the researcher because it gives a lesson about a father’s love and the
addition, the movie also consists of many directive utterance which can be
analyzed in the research.
Here, the writer wants to give an analysis example in one of the
popular movie entitled Homefront. In this movie, there is a subtitle provided
by a subtitler to make the viewer easily to understand the story. This is the
example of the analysis:
SL: Are you fucking kidding me? Don't be lighting that shit up in here.
TL: Apa kau bercanda? Jangan hisap disini.
On the subtitle’s data above, there is a bold typed sentences which
show the communicative translation method. Because the subtitler reduces
some words to make it easily understood by the viewer. He adapts the
Indonesian’s culture. He deletes the words, that, shit up in the source
The word, lighting in bahasa means menyalakan, but he shifts the meaning to hisap. It is done to make the viewer understand easily. Then, in the kinds
of directive utterance analysis, the sentence “Don't be lighting that shit up
in here” is included into the commanding category. It means that the speaker commands the addressee not to do something. In situational context, the Boss
of the Bikers Gangster tries to tell Jojo not to do smoke in the room. Then, in
accurateness analysis, in the Source Language (SL) “Don’t be lighting that
shit up in here” consists of auxiliary do, not, be, Verb ing, lighting, and
clause that shit up in here as object complemet. And in Target Language,
the sentence “Jangan hisap disini”, consists of auxiliary, jangan, verb,
hisap, and adverb of place, disini. The translation has the same meaning, but
there are two words that had been deleted or not translated into Target
Language (TL). They are that and shit up. Then there is also translation shift
in the word “lighting” into hisap. Although there are two words omitted in
this translation, it does not disturb the whole meaning. Then the meaning of
words, phrase, clause in from Source Language (SL) is translated less
accurately into Target Language (TL). That is why the writer considers this
subtitling as less accurate criteria.
Concerning to the phenomena above, the writer wants to conduct
research in the movie subtitle of Homefront. He finds there are some directive
utterances which is categorized into inaccurate subtitling. He wants to analyze
the method used by subtitler, what kinds of directive utterance and whether
the result of subtitling is accurate or not. Therefore, the writer conducts a
research entitled A Subtitling Analysis On Directive Utterance In
Homefront Movie by Baba Naheel.
B. Problem Statement
Based on the background of the study above, the problem statement
can be formulated as follows:
1. What are the translation methods used for subtitling on directive utterance
2. What is the kind of directive utterance used in Homefront Movie by Baba
Naheel? and
3. How is the accuracy of subtitling on directive utterance in Homefront
Movie by Baba Naheel?
C. Objective of the Study
Based on the problem statements above, the objectives of the study
are formulated as follows:
1. To identify the translation methods used for subtitling on directive
utterance in Homefront Movie by Baba Naheel,
2. To classify the kind of directive utterance used in Homefront Movie by
Baba Naheel, and
3. To describe the accuracy of subtitling on directive utterance in Homefront
Movie by Baba Naheel.
D. Benefit of the Study
This study gives some benefits both in theoretical and practical
ways. They are stated below:
1. Theoretical Benefit:
The result of this research can enrich the theory of movie subtitle,
especially from English into Indonesian subtitles.
2. Practical Benefit
a. The Students
The result of this research can be used as additional information
for the students about subtitling studies. It can improve student’s
knowledge of subtitling analysis, specifically in directive utterance. It
also can be used as references to the students who will conduct research
b. Other Researchers
The result of this research can be used as a reference for other
researcher in conducting other researches which have the same
problems especially in foreign movie subtitling.
c. Subtitler
The result of the research can improve the knowledge and
ability for movie’s subtitler so they can make a good subtitle for other
movies.
E.Research Paper Organization
The researcher divides this research paper into five chapters. Chapter I
consists of background of the study, problem statement, objective of the study,
benefit of the study, and research paper organization.
Chapter II is review of related literature. It consists of previous study
and underlying theory which consists of the theories that used in the research.
They are subtitling, directive utterance, part of speech in English, part of
speech in Indonesian, and accurateness of translation.
Chapter III is research method. It presents type of study, object of
study, data and data source, method of collecting data, and technique for
analyzing data.
Chapter IV is research finding and discussion. The research finding
shows the answer of problem statements of the research. They are the method
of subtitling, kinds of directive utterance, and the accuracy of translation in
Homefront Movie. Then, discussion is to review the result of the research
finding.
Chapter V is conclusion and suggestion. After finishing chapter V, the
